KYIV, Nov. 19 - Mikheil Saakashvili, the former governor of Ukraine’s Odesa region, told a protest rally in Kyiv that he is ready to “create a new government of Ukraine” and to become the country’s prime minister, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, Nov 16 – Head of the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Ukraine Hugues Mingarelli said that in the past three years the EU has provided EUR 12 billion to Ukraine, including EUR 3.4 billion of marcofinancial assistance.

KYIV, Nov 17 – The U.S. Senate has approved the bill on the "U.S. budget for 2018 on the needs of national defense," which contains permission to allocate $350 million to provide security assistance to Ukraine, the Ukrainian embassy in the United States said.

KYIV, Nov 17 - The number of Ukrainians who were skeptical about the reform of the health care system in the country in September 2017 shrank by 9% compared to August, according to the Monitoring of the Perception of Reform Progress in September 2017, which was conducted by Kantar TNS and the National Reform Council.

KIEV, Nov. 18 - Parliament Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov met with Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg in Kiev on Tuesday and discussed reverse gas supplies from Europe to Ukraine, the press service of the Ukrainian parliament has reported.

KIEV, Nov. 18 – President Petro Poroshenko and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier at a recent meeting in Kiev discussed the possibility of holding talks in the "Weimar format" to settle the situation in the east of Ukraine.

CHISINAU, Nov. 20 - Ukraine will carry on its European integration course despite the war, President Petro Poroshenko said.

"The ongoing war in Ukraine is not an excuse for stopping reforms. There is the presidential strategy, Ukraine 2020, which aims at further integration between Ukraine and the European Union.

TALLINN, Nov. 20 - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has called on Russia to comply with the Minsk agreements on the settlement of the situation in eastern Ukraine.

VIENNA, Nov. 20 - Prospects for peace in eastern Ukraine are "bleak", underscoring the need to uphold a shaky ceasefire between government forces and pro-Russian separatist rebels, a senior official from the OSCE security watchdog said on Thursday, Reuters reported.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 - The United States plans to increase non-lethal military assistance to Ukraine, including deliveries of the first Humvee vehicles, having decided for now not to provide weapons, U.S. officials said, Reuters reported.